Episode 236: How to Start a New Adventure

The anticipation and anxiety around starting a new adventure can be even more intense when you're dealing with perfectionism. In this episode, Janine and Shannon discuss a new adventure they're both embarking on and how they're preparing for it.

Discussion topics include:

• How Shannon is feeling good (not just better) at good enough!

• Janine and Shannon's excitement to be starting the YNAB (You Need A Budget) Certified Coaching program together

• How there are some nerves mixed in with the excitement

• Easing our nervousness and setting ourselves up for success

• Our different approaches to getting ready for this course

• Electronic vs paper note taking

• The value of staying flexible when you're starting something new, because you don't know until you know

• How our plans for structure around Getting to Good Enough fell by the wayside very quickly

• Thinking about whether a project needs to be structured or not when you're starting out

• How building in some structure can make a new adventure feel doable

• Getting in touch with why starting a particular new adventure is important to you

• Putting your why into a few words to help you stay on track in your new adventure

• Acknowledging that things probably aren't going to go perfectly so that you're not derailed by problems